IMPORTANT NEWS

People in Canada really like using the "poop" emoji.

Hit "Delete" to flush!

Via.

iPhones and using the toilet: an analysis

Via.

I just might need this app!

Pick up poop, get free Wifi!

 Here’s the way this awesome program works:

1.) Dog owners in Mexico City parks throw their bags of canine poop in special waste containers.

2.) The container weighs the weight of the dog poop and then gives free minutes of Wifi for everyone in the park. More poop, more free Wifi! 


In other "pin up your dog's poop" news, Lukasz Rostkowski, an artist/rapper in Poland, came up with a nice visual to remind park visitors not to leave behind anything. (Via, by way of here.)

Make a wish on burning astronaut underwear!

I’m guessing you already knew there was an International Space Station circling the Earth. It’s been up in orbit for over ten years, and it’s pretty awesome except for ONE thing:

NO LAUNDRY.

Because astronauts can’t wash their clothes, and because it costs so much money to launch clothes into space, astronauts usually wear their underwear for three or four days. 

After that, they’d put the dirty grundies into a dirty-underwear space capsule (really). Once full, this capsule would be ejected from the ISS, and would descend to Earth, where it would burn up in the atmosphere.

So it’s possible that at some point you’ve wished upon a shooting star that was actually burning astronaut underwear.

Oops, almost forgot to tell you: After all that time of wearing dirty underwear, the astronauts finally got a laundry machine. Yes! 

Photos from NASA and evosia.

Wow, toilets in the future are going to be awesome!

From Glennz.

"Honey, did you reboot the toilet?"

I’ve already caught news of the Numi, the new $6,400 toilet. But I didn’t know it could do so much!

I was just reading this article, which states that the Numi has no levers or buttons at all. Instead, everything works with a remote control. Not only does this allow you to flush, heat, dry, and play music (what do I want to listen to when I bust a grumpy?), but you can also personalize your profile. And the Numi will remember you for next time!

When the bathroom is dark, the toilet lights itself up so you can find it. And there are more lights in the bowl in case you’re a man who’s peeing. This way, you know where to aim, a problem we had in our house just yesterday. (“The toilet’s leaking!” “Er, no it’s actually not.”)

When you approach the Numi, it senses you and raises its lid (but not the heated seat). Is it chilly? You’ll feel warm air being blown onto your feet from the bottom of the toilet. Now here’s a great feature:

“If you are a man standing in front of the toilet, you will notice a blue beam of light projected on the right-side floor, adjacent to the toilet. Place your foot in the path of that beam and the toilet seat will rise; break the beam again and the toilet will flush and the seat will lower itself.”

There is also a bidet in the toilet . . . but I don’t have the patience to explain all of THAT. Anyway, if you use it, you’ll be spraying and drying your butt region. When you’re done, it will flush automatically and then lower the seat and lid.

What about the music? Well, according to the article’s writer, “The audio quality was quite good, considering that you are listening to a toilet.” But he adds that with all that technology, the time will come when you have to reboot the toilet!

Nice Thumb Drive!

Yep, it's a dismembered thumb sticking out of a computer! It's both sort of sick and a decent pun. Thumbs up!

Available here. 

Take the Plunge!

Nearly a million cell phones get dropped into toilets every year. And this man's phone was one of them!

What makes our gentleman unusual is that he got his arm stuck in the toilet trying to get the phone back! Emergency crews were called. Men with jackhammers removed the toilet. (And reporters with cameras removed the man's dignity.)

This story got a lot of coverage...like this:

Behold the magic of ShakeNBelch!

Well, maybe "magic" is the wrong word. But what do you call an iPhone app that makes a variety of belching sounds?

Oh, that's right: "COOL"! (Learn more about ShakeNBelch on the iPhone here.)

Are You Wiping Your Bum with Your Cell Phone?

I suppose you don't ACTUALLY reach for an iPhone when you're done on the toilet, but you might as well. Look at this headline!

Apparently, about one in four cell phones has "high or warning levels" of bacteria and other germs. I guess this sort of makes sense. People are constantly handling their cell phones, but how often do they clean them off?

Probably as many times as they wipe their bums with them. (Which is never!)

Story here.

Twitter Saves This Guy's A**!

There are some people who think Twitter is useless. Poor fools! Don’t they know that Twitter can save lives?

Here’s what I mean: Recently, a Japanese Twitter user named naika_tei went into a public bathroom. That is, he went into a stall…and after busting a grumpy, he found that there was no toilet paper! 

Since nobody was IN the bathroom to help him out, naika_tei tweeted his request (below) for someone to save him by bringing some toilet paper…but nobody came!

Valiantly, our hero again tweeted that he was in the bathroom and could someone PLEASE help? And then…[drum roll]...a kind soul delivered some poop tickets to naika_tei! 

And so our hero was able to safely wipe his butt thanks to the magical power of Twitter! (I’m assuming he washed his iPhone with soap and water, though.)

(Do you know how cool I am?

I have a Twitter account too!)

The Bathroom Door is Not Sound-Proof!

As we know, nobody likes to be heard peeing or pooping. Just ask anyone who uses the Pee Without Noise Stool. (Or Marilyn Monroe!)

The Japanese always seem to be pioneers when it comes to bathroom technology. After all, back in the 1800s, a Japanese genius came up with the idea for the Otokeshi-no Tsubo: “Urn for Covering the Sound.” 

The urn was filled with water and put in the bathroom. So when someone needed to pee or poop, the idea was to pull the plug on the urn and let the water flow out of the dragon's mouth. This gurgling would mask the sound of pooping and peeing.

And now the Japanese have come up with yet ANOTHER genius bathroom invention: it’s named the Keitai Otohime, but it’s probably easier just to call it the first-ever, palm-sized pee and poop audio masker.

Basically, it’s a keychain-sized version of the Urn for Covering the Sound. The small electronic device costs about $15, and makes flushing, gurgling sounds. (There is also an iPhone application called “Eco Oto” that does the same thing.) 

But the cool thing about it is that the Keitai Otohime  saves water. That’s because the average Japanese woman flushes the toilet more than two times to conceal her pooping and peeing sounds. That means this device will save four gallons of water every time someone goes to the bathroom!

But maybe the day will come when we no longer need these devices. As a Japanese woman said in this news story, “My own excretory sounds never make me embarrassed. It's much more embarrassing to put on makeup on the train.” Totally. I feel the same way!

Oh, and here’s a 1980s' version of the Keitai Otohime.